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00:00:00 – 01:24:51
The video delves into an in-depth bash Barbarian build, emphasizing its versatility and effectiveness across various gameplay levels. Discussions cover optimization strategies, gear progression paths, character optimization, and the importance of balancing offense and defense. Key points include maximizing damage output, survivability enhancements, crit damage optimization, gem usage, and tips for boss killing. The importance of proccing thorns, crowd control duration, and utilizing specific skills like Holy Bolt Elixir for scaling damage are highlighted. The video also touches on meta shifts, evolving builds, and the significance of staying updated on optimal strategies to maximize effectiveness in the game.
00:00:00
In this part of the video, the content creator discusses an in-depth bash Barbarian build, which is considered one of the best builds for the season. The build is versatile and can be used for various gameplay levels, such as starter, mid-transition, and end-game. It is highlighted as being able to handle bosses, high-pits, nightmare dungeons, and world bosses easily while being extremely tanky. Various setups and variations of the build are explored, showcasing its power with high damage output, including billions of bleeds and DPS. The video also delves into details about the build, responding to community questions, offering insights on transitioning to different build variants, stat optimization, and gameplay strategies. The build’s effectiveness and versatility are reiterated, emphasizing its capability to handle various in-game challenges.
00:10:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses a build focused on increasing damage output and survivability in a game. The key points include using specific skills in a rotation to maximize damage, utilizing certain items like the Moonrise and Grandfather for crit damage boosts, and explaining different build variations for different playstyles such as tankiness or high damage. The speaker emphasizes the importance of transitioning between build variations at different stages of the game and recommends starting with a tanky build before moving to more offensive setups, especially emphasizing the need for specific items like the Grandfather for optimal performance.
00:20:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses different leveling and gear progression paths for a character build in the game. They mention starting with an “upheaval” build, then transitioning to different variants based on obtained items like Hardin Crest and Uber unique crafts. The speaker advises against using certain items like Melted Heart and Doombringer due to their impact on damage output. They also compare the benefits of different attack speed categories and stress the importance of not exceeding the 100% cap. The discussion includes details on the attack speed bonuses from gear and skills, optimal rotations for the build, prioritizing stats on equipment, and addressing Q&A about gameplay mechanics.
00:30:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses various aspects related to character optimization in a game. They explain the importance of reaching resistance and armor caps by stacking specific attributes such as elemental resistances and armor rolls on gear. They also emphasize the significance of stacking life bonuses to enhance survivability, recommending the use of items like imposing presence and focusing on life nodes in the Paragon tree. Additionally, they provide tips on reaching high amounts of life, such as obtaining gear with life bonuses and utilizing items like rubies for increased life percentage. The speaker offers strategic advice on tweaking Paragon points to balance offense and defense, ultimately ensuring both survivability and damage output in the game.
00:40:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the importance of increasing life and Berserking damage for better survivability and damage output in the game. They mention how life and Berserking values multiply with each new addition, and emphasize the need to optimize the Blood Rage multiplier. The speaker also delves into the significance of crit damage versus vable damage, recommending a 10 to 1 ratio for optimal scaling of damage. They suggest tempering crit damage instead of vable, unless in specific scenarios, and provide insights on gem and gear choices to achieve the desired ratios effectively. Additionally, they touch upon the meta shift towards bleed builds and the necessity of a Rogue character for crit damage tempering.
00:50:00
In this segment of the video, the main points discussed include building a rogue, gem usage for different builds, the choice between counter offensive, heavy-handed, and cut to the bone modifiers, the recommendation of using a two-handed mace over dual wield or two-hander weapons for high DPS in a bash build due to multiple multipliers and cleave roll benefits. The importance of optimizing multipliers, high crit damage, and vulnerable damage for high damage output is emphasized. Tips for boss killing and transitioning between builds are also provided, along with a solution on how to proc bleeds in a no bleed build using Outburst and Toughest Nails skills.
01:00:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the importance of proccing thorns in every build, particularly by attacking and utilizing bleed damage multipliers. They highlight the benefits of Tough as Nails and Outburst for survivability, recommending keeping these two points and proccing bleed on every build. Additionally, the speaker explains the significance of crowd control duration in taunting enemies longer for increased damage reduction. They emphasize the effectiveness of using Walk Cry on boots to boost damage output and give tips on improving bleed damage scaling through Holy Bol Elixir. The speaker also touches on grandfather masterworking and scaling bleed damage with Holy Bol Elixir-triggered bleeds, showcasing a chain reaction effect that leads to significant damage output during gameplay.
01:10:00
In this part of the video, the content creator explains the use of the Holy Bolt Elixir passive skill in scaling damage immensely by proccing it on enemies and bosses. The strategy involves procing Holy Bolt Elixir to increase bleeding damage significantly. The creator discusses the effectiveness of this skill for high-end content clearing and the exploitation of multipliers. Various stat priorities, skill choices, and pre-buff setups for runs are also covered. Additionally, the optimal settings for gameplay, including cursor color, player highlight, and keybindings, are shared. The content creator also provides tricks for gameplay, such as using Force Move on the mouse wheel for animation cancels and the “whole position” keybind with a shift key to optimize gameplay and reduce finger strain during long gaming sessions.
01:20:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses a helpful hotkey that allows attacking without having to hold down the shift key, making gameplay more comfortable. They recommend binding instances like holy Bol Elixir to hotkeys for quick access during battles. Additionally, the speaker mentions the evolving nature of the build and meta shifts in the game, advising players to stay updated on optimal strategies as the game progresses. They emphasize the importance of item power and staying informed on the latest developments to maximize their build’s effectiveness.